Why is the owner of Crandall Canyon mines

lying about an earthquake and being so defensive when they haven't even found the miners yet. This is a disgusting press conference on CNN. :puke:

hates the media - he's heard from Rush and Sean and Ann and so on about how awful the media are - now that he has to deal with them he just reflexively assumes they are going to stab him and his company in the back.

Bryant
Check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

horrible.

Rush is a sick SOB.

They would have to conduct an emergency rescue for him, after he panicked and bawled like a hysterical baby.

...and I don't mean angered.

This presser is coming off as a CYA tactic to fend off blame even before the victins are excavated.

Shameful and tasteless

All I wanted was to find out the status of the miners...I didn't need an editorial from that dickhead.

I had to see his total insensitivity for myself.

His name is Bob Murray and earns my nomination for worst person in the w-o-orld. He started the presser with a biography of how he founded the company and how great he was to do so. Then he ranted about the environmentalists. Then he trots out the earthquake excuse, saying the company was not at all at fault. He finally got around to the trapped miners almost as an afterthought. What a piece of crap!!

He's a raving lunatic.

University of Utah's release from yesterday.
http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=080607-2

and cut away to politics. Really, really strange.

countdown@msnbc.com

Thanks. I think that report plus the exposure of his 'retreat mining' have sent him over the edge. One more criminal moron exposed.

That was the most shameful press conference I've seen in life.

KO will not be doing his regular show tonight due to the Dem debate. I hope he mentions this tomorrow.

Who do I believe - that loony or the University of Utah experts?

who shot himself at the press conference? Kinda sorta reminds me of that.

Hey man, nice shot...;)

by this jerk and made to work in highly dangerous circumstances with little mine safety being implemented in this guy's mine.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/aug2007/utah-a07.shtml
<snip>
University of Utah seismograph stations recorded waves of 3.9 magnitude in the area of the mine early Monday, raising speculation that an earthquake may have caused the cave-in. However, scientists later concluded the collapse at the mine had actually triggered the seismic disturbance, whose epicenter was a mile away. “There is no evidence that the earthquake triggered the mine collapse,” Walter Arabasz, director of the seismography stations, told AP.

Disputing the scientific findings, the mine owner angrily insisted, “The whole problem has been caused by an earthquake.”

The Crandall Canyon mine has a record of serious safety violations. Government mine inspectors have issued 325 citations against the mine since January 2004, according to the federal Mine Safety and Health Administration’s (MSHA) web site. Of those, 116 were what MSHA considered “significant and substantial,” meaning they were likely to cause injury or death. Since the beginning of the year, inspectors have issued 32 citations, 14 of them considered significant.

AP reported that last month inspectors cited the mine for violating federal rules requiring that at least two separate passageways be designated for escape in an emergency. This was the third time in less than two years that the mine had been cited for the same problem. In 2005, MSHA ordered the mine’s owners to pay $963 for not having escape-ways and in 2006 the fine was reduced to just $60. According to MSHA records, the mine owner has been ordered to pay nearly $152,000 in penalties.
--------------
Here's why he's so angry

If you're a CORPORATION, that is.

REAL LAW ENFORCEMENT would mean that any “significant and substantial”
violation would require the place be shut down until the problem was fixed.

But under this "big business/small government" fascist regime, 116
life-threatening violations of law are just "business as usual".

The TOKEN fine of $963 was reduced to an even more insulting $60?
That's a class-warring gob of spit in the face of every miner who NEEDS
those escape tunnels.

Or should I now say, "needed"?

unbelievable.